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The oldest of the small private companies was the Alliance and Dublin Consumers' Gas Company, which had been founded in the early nineteenth century by Daniel O'Connell, a prominent Irish politician and Lord Mayor of Dublin. After initially supplying the company (known simply as Dublin Gas by the 1980s) with wholesale natural gas, Bord Gáis ...
The landscape was dominated by Dublin Gas Company's mountains of black coal, along with chemical factories, tar pits, bottle factories and iron foundries. However, bakers and millers maintained business along the southern edge of the inner basin. [12] By the 1960s, the Grand Canal Docks were almost completely derelict.
The New South Wales Government Railways manufactured its own oil-gas for this purpose, together with reticulated coal-gas to railway stations and associated infrastructure. Such works were established at the Macdonaldtown Carriage Sheds, Newcastle, Bathurst, Junee and Werris Creek. These plants followed on from the works of a private supplier ...
In 1713, Dublin Corporation leased lands on the Liffey to Sir John Rogerson, [3] who was a developer and had been Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1693 to 1694. [4] The lease of 133 acres (54 ha) on the south bank of the river (described as 'betwixt Lazy Hill and Ringsend') was conditional on Rogerson constructing a quay on the land. [5]
The Dublin Gas Company Building, more recently known as the School of Nursing and Midwifery, is an Art Deco building on D'Olier Street in Dublin. It was originally the headquarters for the Dublin Gas Company and more recently became the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin .
A Max & Erma's restaurant in Dublin that closed during the COVID-19 pandemic is set to become the newest location of a popular Sheetz gas station, according to Columbus building permits.
[12] [13] [14] It would rank as the 4th largest London West-End theatre , and exceeds the capacity of all New York Broadway theatres . The theatre was built by Joe O'Reilly [ 15 ] of Chartered Land (Castlethorn), [ 8 ] on a 0.32-hectare (0.8-acre) site, [ 16 ] at a reported cost of €80 million (incl. land), to the specifications of the Dublin ...
Cannel gas was more expensive to produce but gave a better light than coal gas; however, the works were converted to produce coal gas in 1886. The Western company was absorbed by the GLCC in 1873. In 1889 inclined retorts were installed. The Kensal Green works were entirely rebuilt by the GLCC in the early 1930s. [11]